Is anyone else concerned about living a short life?

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    [–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    In the 1970s my mother was eating liqueur (parsley sauce) and mash potato every day for lunch and a tin of tomato soup with no bread for dinner. If you look back at the 70s everyone was thin, not because they had more will power but because most couldn't afford good food. And it did effect them, eventually my mother couldn't sleep on her cheap mattress because the springs dug into her bones.

    [–]Cornfed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    If you are from the West then what in God's name are you talking about? - the 60s and 70s were the richest time ever.

    [–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    But food was not great.

    If you look at the stats people paid a far higher proportion of their salary on food and the cost of housing a lot less.

    So if you were young and starting out rent was easy to pay but food was something you could cut back to save some money.

    [–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Once again I don't know where you are thinking of, but the exact opposite was the case in most of the West. Where I'm from bread and milk were subsidised and basically free, and the basic bread and other foods were vastly nutritionally superior to their modern nutrition-free counterparts.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    wages were higher (adjusting for inflation), you could afford the food easily, you were only poor if you had like 10 kids, how many kids did your mom have?